Upper Paleolithic Figurines Showing Women with Obesity may Represent Survival Symbols of Climatic Change. [PDF]
Obesity (Silver Spring), 2021 Figurines of women with obesity or who are pregnant (“Venus figurines”) from Upper Paleolithic Europe rank among the earliest art and endured from 38,000 to 14,000 BP (before present), one of the most arduous climatic periods in human history. We propose
Johnson RJ, Lanaspa MA, Fox JW.
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Complex mortuary dynamics in the Upper Paleolithic of the decorated Grotte de Cussac, France. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2020 Significance Gravettian mortuary practices provide a key perspective on social complexity during the Upper Paleolithic. Such inferences have been drawn mostly from the formal burials relatively abundant for this period.
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Subsistence strategy changes during the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition reveals specific adaptations of Human Populations to their environment. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2019 The transition from Middle to Upper Paleolithic is a major biological and cultural threshold in the construction of our common humanity. Technological and behavioral changes happened simultaneously to a major climatic cooling, which reached its acme with
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Initial Upper Paleolithic bladelet production: Bladelets in Moravian Bohunician
Přehled výzkumů, 2020 Bladelets are a common Upper Palaeolithic technological category, often described as a proxy for the Early Upper Palaeolithic. However, bladelet production has already been documented within preceding Initial Upper Palaeolithic techno-complexes, e.g.
Yuri E. Demidenko +2 more
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Characterizing the American Upper Paleolithic. [PDF]
Sci AdvIn North America, there are enough sites with relatively large tool assemblages predating ~13,500 calibrated years before the present (cal yr B.P.) to allow assessment of the underlying characteristics of their shared lithic tradition. Their shared technological features involve the use of dual core-and-blade and biface technologies similar to those in
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Correction: Chronological reassessment of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition and Early Upper Paleolithic cultures in Cantabrian Spain. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 [This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0194708.].
Ana B Marín-Arroyo +9 more
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Child in Time: Children as Liminal Agents in Upper Paleolithic Decorated Caves [PDF]
ArtsAmong the multiple zoomorphic and geometric images that dominate Upper Paleolithic decorated cave walls in Europe, some intriguing human hand stencils and finger flutings stand out. Dozens of these marks are attributed to toddlers and children aged 2–12.
Ella Assaf, Yafit Kedar, Ran Barkai
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Initial Upper Paleolithic in the Zagros Mountains
Frontiers in Earth ScienceThe Iranian Plateau and the Zagros Mountain chain, located at the crossroads of Africa and Eurasia, occupy a critical geographical position in out-of-Africa scenarios, sitting astride a major dispersal corridor into southern and central Asia.
Mohammad Javad Shoaee +28 more
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Reconstructing flexible pathways of Aurignacian blade and bladelet production at Vogelherd. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe beginning of the Upper Paleolithic represents a key period in human history. At this time, we can grasp the technological concepts that Homo sapiens used in the early Upper Paleolithic.
Benjamin Schürch +2 more
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New data on the formation of local variations in the Upper Paleolithic of the Caucasus [PDF]
Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2023 As of today, very few Upper Paleolithic sites are known on both the southern and the northern slopes of the Caucasus. Their materials allow tracing settlement dynamics in the region from 40/39 to 20 cal ka BP.
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